8,941
8.9K
1998
1998
by
Schaefer, Valorie Lee; Bendell, Norm, ill
texts
eye 8,941
favorite 82
comment 2
"American girl library."
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 2 reviews )
Topics: Girls, Grooming for girls, Grooming
2,032
2.0K
1998
1998
by
Hopkinson, Nalo
texts
eye 2,032
favorite 36
comment 0
A fantasy novel of urban decay whose heroine turns to Afro-Caribbean magic to help a boyfriend escape gangs. The gangs are enforcing a contract to produce a human heart for transplant, even if the boyfriend has to kill for it. The setting is a futuristic Toronto
Topics: Inner cities, Obeah (Cult), Future in popular culture
2,343
2.3K
texts
eye 2,343
favorite 68
comment 1
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Hooks, Bell -- Childhood and youth, African Americans -- Biography, African American women --...
1,629
1.6K
2009
2009
by
Marlon James
texts
eye 1,629
favorite 20
comment 0
Topics: Slaves -- Fiction, Jamaica -- Fiction
2,395
2.4K
1974
1974
by
Toni Morrison
texts
eye 2,395
favorite 13
comment 0
Topics: African American women -- Fiction, City and town life -- Fiction, Female friendship -- Fiction,...
3,618
3.6K
1987
1987
by
Morrison, Toni
texts
eye 3,618
favorite 75
comment 0
After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved." Sethe and Denver take her in and then strange things begin to happen. Set in rural Ohio several years after the Civil War, this profoundly affecting chronicle of slavery and its aftermath is Toni Morrison's greatest novel, a dazzling achievement, and the most spellbinding reading experience of the decade. A brutally powerful,...
Topics: African American women, Women slaves, Infanticide
2,473
2.5K
texts
eye 2,473
favorite 38
comment 0
Topics: Cultural Literacy and Humanities, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade...
1,643
1.6K
1997
1997
by
Shange, Ntozake
texts
eye 1,643
favorite 25
comment 0
Topic: African American women
1,867
1.9K
2012
2012
by
Curtis, Christopher Paul, author
texts
eye 1,867
favorite 20
comment 0
307 pages ; 22 cm
Topics: Families -- Juvenile fiction, Depressions -- 1929 -- Juvenile fiction, Poverty -- Juvenile fiction,...
1,542
1.5K
2006
2006
by
Trethewey, Natasha D., 1966-
texts
eye 1,542
favorite 19
comment 0
Includes bibliographical references (pages 47-49)
Topics: Cultural Literacy and Humanities, Reading Level-Adult
2,574
2.6K
2015
2015
by
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977- author
texts
eye 2,574
favorite 92
comment 1
"An Anchor Books original"--Title page verso
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 12
2,115
2.1K
2004
2004
by
Souljah, Sister
texts
eye 2,115
favorite 17
comment 0
Winter Santiaga, the daughter of one of Brooklyn's most powerful drug czars, uses her own weapons--including sex and an aggressive attitude--to stay on top, after her father's empire is threatened by a drug war
Topics: General, Fiction, Fiction - General, Fiction / General, Action & Adventure, African American...
1,692
1.7K
2007
2007
by
Christopher Paul Curtis
texts
eye 1,692
favorite 14
comment 0
Topics: Juvenile Historical Fiction, Juvenile Fiction, Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction, Children: Grades...
78
78
2007
2007
by
Williams, Tia, 1975-
texts
eye 78
favorite 3
comment 0
Centering around a prestigious performing arts school in New York City, students Tangie, Skye, Eden, Trey, C.J., Izzy, and Regina learn valuable lessons in love, friendship, fame, and fortune
Topics: Social Issues - Adolescence, Juvenile Fiction / General, Performing Arts - General, School &...
3,740
3.7K
1985
1985
by
Kincaid, Jamaica
texts
eye 3,740
favorite 21
comment 0
Episodes from the young life of Annie John, aged 10 to 17, as she grows up on the Caribbean Island of Antigua. This is a magical coming-of-age tale, ripe with the special ambience of its tropical setting and sustained by Annie's far from naive awareness of the world around her. Death, illness, and poverty intrude on the narrator's perceptive sensibility from time to time, but even these experiences instruct her and expand her understanding of life and its shifting reality. Although Annie leaves...
Topics: Mothers and daughters, Teenage girls, Coming of age
1,779
1.8K
texts
eye 1,779
favorite 9
comment 0
Topics: Prejudices -- Fiction., Ku Klux Klan -- Fiction., Vermont -- Fiction.
1,896
1.9K
1976
1976
by
Walker, Alice, 1944-
texts
eye 1,896
favorite 7
comment 0
Topics: African American college students, African American women, Voter registration
6,908
6.9K
2013
2013
by
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977- author
texts
eye 6,908
favorite 80
comment 1
477 pages ; 25 cm
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Andrae, A, Immigrants -- Fiction, Refugees -- Fiction, Nigerians -- United States -- Fiction,...
1,420
1.4K
1996
1996
by
Souljah Sister
texts
eye 1,420
favorite 14
comment 0
Topics: Souljah, -- Sister, African American girls -- Life skills guides
1,703
1.7K
1998
1998
by
Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944-
texts
eye 1,703
favorite 45
comment 0
Includes bibliographical references and index
Topics: Rainey, Ma, 1886-1939, Smith, Bessie, 1894-1937, Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959, Rainey, Gertrude...
484
484
2009
2009
by
Chris Cleave
texts
eye 484
favorite 8
comment 0
Topics: Young women -- Fiction, Nigerians -- England -- Fiction, Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction,...
1,443
1.4K
2010
2010
by
Williams-Garcia, Rita
texts
eye 1,443
favorite 10
comment 0
In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp
Topics: Black Panther Party, Sisters, Mothers, Poets, African Americans, Civil rights movements
1,243
1.2K
1968
1968
by
Moody, Anne, 1940-
texts
eye 1,243
favorite 10
comment 0
Autobiographical
Topics: Moody, Anne, 1940-, African American girls, African Americans
383
383
2003
2003
by
Johnson, Angela, 1961-
texts
eye 383
favorite 6
comment 0
Bobby's carefree teenage life changes forever when he becomes a father and must care for his adored baby daughter
Topics: Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 10,...
812
812
2008
2008
by
Draper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills)
texts
eye 812
favorite 15
comment 1
Coretta Scott King Award, 2007
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Slavery, Indentured servants, African Americans, Contract labor
819
819
texts
eye 819
favorite 9
comment 1
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
80
80
texts
eye 80
favorite 0
comment 0
Topics: African American families, African American women, Fiction
1,539
1.5K
2010
2010
by
Heidi W. Durrow
texts
eye 1,539
favorite 21
comment 0
577
577
1992
1992
by
Ringgold, Faith
texts
eye 577
favorite 5
comment 0
With Harriet Tubman as her guide, Cassie retraces the steps escaping slaves took on the Underground Railroad in order to reunite with her younger brother
Topics: Tubman, Harriet, 1820?-1913, Underground Railroad, Brothers and sisters, African Americans
750
750
2001
2001
by
Pierce, Tamora
texts
eye 750
favorite 11
comment 0
"Point."
Topics: Magic, Fantasy
118
118
2009
2009
by
Celeste O. Norfleet
texts
eye 118
favorite 4
comment 0
Topics: African American teenage girls, African American high school students, Fiction
426
426
1983
1983
by
Smith, Barbara
texts
eye 426
favorite 19
comment 0
Includes bibliographies
Topics: Afro-American women, Feminism
5,125
5.1K
2009
2009
by
Russell, Rachel Renée
texts
eye 5,125
favorite 26
comment 0
Fourteen-year-old Nikki Maxwell writes in her diary of her struggle to be popular at her exclusive new private school, then of finding her place after she gives up on being part of the elite group
Topics: Popularity, Friendship, Artists, Schools, Diaries, Jugendbuch, Tagebuchroman, Freundschaft,...
788
788
1996
1996
by
Painter, Nell Irvin
texts
eye 788
favorite 9
comment 0
Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-343) and index
Topics: Truth, Sojourner, d. 1883, Afro-American abolitionists, Abolitionists, Women abolitionists, Social...
Source: removedNEL
1,330
1.3K
texts
eye 1,330
favorite 20
comment 0
Cover title
Topics: Racially mixed people, Color, Picture books
883
883
texts
eye 883
favorite 7
comment 1
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topic: African American girls
1,205
1.2K
1994
1994
by
Beals, Melba
texts
eye 1,205
favorite 5
comment 0
Topics: Beals, Melba, Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.), School integration, Afro-American students
816
816
1993
1993
by
Lorde, Audre
texts
eye 816
favorite 33
comment 0
"This edition was created ... by arrangement with The Crossing Press and W.W. Norton & Company, Inc."--T.p. verso
Topics: Poetry, Feminism, Lesbianism, African American women
1,085
1.1K
1993
1993
by
Porter, Connie Rose, 1959-; Rosales, Melodye, ill
texts
eye 1,085
favorite 19
comment 0
"Ages 7 and up"--Cover p. [4]
Topics: African Americans, Slavery, Underground Railroad
1,172
1.2K
1989
1989
by
Kincaid, Jamaica
texts
eye 1,172
favorite 15
comment 0
Topics: Kincaid, Jamaica, Novelists, Antiguan and Barbudan
578
578
1990
1990
by
Hurston, Zora Neale
texts
eye 578
favorite 13
comment 0
Originally published: J.B. Lippincott, c1935
Topics: African Americans, Tales, Voodooism, Folklore By Black persons, United States
922
922
texts
eye 922
favorite 7
comment 0
Topics: Slaves -- United States -- Fiction, Teenage girls -- Fiction, United States -- History -- Civil...
363
363
1994
1994
by
Sinclair, April
texts
eye 363
favorite 0
comment 0
Topics: African American women, Young women
913
913
1987
1987
by
John Steptoe
texts
eye 913
favorite 14
comment 0
Topics: Fairy tales, Africa -- Fiction
421
421
2005
2005
by
Johnson, Keith Lee
texts
eye 421
favorite 9
comment 0
Set in 1950s New Orleans, Little Black Girl Lost is a powerful tale filled with sex, greed, and the explosive political and social climates of an America long gone. Fifteen-year-old beauty Johnnie Wise lives her life devoted to God. But her innocence is shattered when her mother, who has been a prostitute for years, sells Johnnie's body to lecherous insurance man Earl Shamus
Topics: Modern fiction, Literary, Fiction, Fiction - General, Fiction / General, General, Urban Life,...
1,735
1.7K
1988
1988
by
Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann), 1813-1897
texts
eye 1,735
favorite 2
comment 1
Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of Michigan and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann), 1813-1897, Slaves, Women slaves
Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=VNK0QUMnoCkC&oe=UTF-8
596
596
1978
1978
by
Angelou, Maya, 1928-
texts
eye 596
favorite 13
comment 1
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
714
714
2000
2000
by
Bridges, Ruby; Lundell, Margo
texts
eye 714
favorite 23
comment 1
"This edition is only available for distribution through the school market"--P. [4] of cover
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Bridges, Ruby, African American children, African Americans, School integration
1,232
1.2K
1976
1976
by
Taylor, Mildred D
texts
eye 1,232
favorite 5
comment 0
Sequel: Let the circle be unbroken
Topics: African Americans, Logan family (Fictitious characters : Taylor), Prejudices, Depressions, Blacks
767
767
texts
eye 767
favorite 13
comment 0
Topics: Gardening -- Juvenile fiction, Parent and child -- Juvenile fiction, Birthdays -- Juvenile fiction,...
736
736
2002
2002
by
McDonough, Yona Zeldis; Harrison, Nancy, 1963- ill
texts
eye 736
favorite 23
comment 1
Who was Harriet Tubman? -- Life in Maryland -- Looking for the North Star -- Free man's wife --- Free at last -- Conductor -- Country at war -- Moses of her people
favoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Tubman, Harriet, 1820?-1913, Slaves, African American women, Underground Railroad, Antislavery...
1,341
1.3K
1999
1999
by
Hesse, Karen; Muth, Jon J., ill
texts
eye 1,341
favorite 20
comment 0
A young girl eagerly awaits a coming rainstorm to bring relief from the oppressive summer heat
Topics: Rain and rainfall, Summer, Mothers and daughters, African Americans
185
185
2006
2006
by
Grimes, Nikki
texts
eye 185
favorite 5
comment 0
Inconsolable at being separated from her older brother, eight-year-old Paris is apprehensive about her new foster family but just as she learns to trust them, she faces a life-changing decision
Topics: Foster home care, African Americans, Brothers and sisters
340
340
1995
1995
by
Virginia Hamilton
texts
eye 340
favorite 15
comment 0
Topics: Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 12
165
165
1992
1992
by
Kroll, Virginia L; Carpenter, Nancy
texts
eye 165
favorite 1
comment 0
Linda, a little girl who lives in the city, learns about East Africa and the Masai in school, and imagines what her life might be like if she were Masai
252
252
1987
1987
by
Mildred D. Taylor
texts
eye 252
favorite 3
comment 0
Topics: African Americans -- Fiction, Prejudices -- Fiction, Race relations -- Fiction, Southern States --...
454
454
1997
1997
by
Applegate, K. A
texts
eye 454
favorite 8
comment 0
009-012 --P. 4 of cover
Topic: Science Fiction, Juvenile-fiction
455
455
1989
1989
by
Aardema, Verna; Vidal, Beatriz; Hollis, Alfred Claud, Sir, 1874- Nandi : their language and folk-lore
texts
eye 455
favorite 14
comment 0
Reprint: Originally published: New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, c1981
Topics: Droughts, Stories in rhyme
648
648
1993
1993
by
Hopkinson, Deborah
texts
eye 648
favorite 16
comment 0
A young slave stitches a quilt with a map pattern which guides her to freedom in the North
Topics: Slavery, Quilts, Underground railroad, Esclaves
1,315
1.3K
2000
2000
by
Pierce, Tamora; Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
texts
eye 1,315
favorite 29
comment 0
Sequel to: Tris's book
Topics: Kisubo, Daja (Fictitious character), Tris (Fictitious character : Pierce), Sandry (Fictitious...
185
185
Dec 17, 2007
12/07
by
Karen English
texts
eye 185
favorite 3
comment 0
Topics: Readers - Chapter Books, Social Issues - Friendship, Juvenile Fiction / Social Situations /...
620
620
1993
1993
by
Connie Rose Porter
texts
eye 620
favorite 8
comment 0
Topics: African Americans -- Juvenile fiction, African Americans -- Fiction, Slavery -- Fiction,...
93
93
1995
1995
by
Best, Cari; Daly, Niki, illustrator
texts
eye 93
favorite 1
comment 0
"A Melanie Kroupa book"--Half title page
Topics: Mothers and daughters, Libraries, Work, City and town life, African Americans, City life, Blacks
490
490
1996
1996
by
Zora Neale Hurston
texts
eye 490
favorite 13
comment 0
Topics: Hurston, Zora Neale -- Biography, African American women novelists -- 20th century -- Biography,...
303
303
2003
2003
by
Flake, Sharon
texts
eye 303
favorite 0
comment 0
"Jump at the sun."
Topics: Money, Mothers and daughters, Single-parent families, Inner cities, African Americans
106
106
1990
1990
by
Hamilton, Virginia, 1936-2002
texts
eye 106
favorite 0
comment 0
Concerned that her grandmother may die, Cammy is unprepared for the accidental death of another relative
Topics: Death, Cousins, Grandmothers
111
111
2014
2014
by
Hannigan, Kate, author
texts
eye 111
favorite 2
comment 0
268 pages : 20 cm
Topic: {u'13': u'Michigan, Lake -- Fiction', u'12': u'Michigan, Lake -- Juvenile fiction', u'15':...
278
278
1978
1978
by
Giovanni, Nikki
texts
eye 278
favorite 10
comment 0
129
129
2004
2004
by
Rinaldi, Ann
texts
eye 129
favorite 2
comment 0
Includes bibliographical references
Topics: Washington, George, 1732-1799, Judge, Oney, Slavery, African Americans
865
865
2006
2006
by
Lombard, Jenny
texts
eye 865
favorite 10
comment 0
When ten-year-old Drita and her family, refugees from Kosovo, move to New York, Drita is teased about not speaking English well, but after a popular student named Maxine is forced to learn about Kosovo as a punishment for teasing Drita, the two girls soon bond
Topics: Refugees, Emigration and immigration, Albanian Americans, Family life, Friendship, Schools, Families
195
195
1992
1992
by
Goldberg, Whoopi, 1950-; Rocco, John, ill
texts
eye 195
favorite 0
comment 0
Alice and her two friends (one of whom is an invisible rabbit) have an adventure-filled trip to 4444 44th Street to collect a prize she hopes will bring her wealth, fame, and lots of friends
Topics: Sweepstakes, Friendship, City and town life
96
96
1993
1993
by
Johnson, Angela, 1961-
texts
eye 96
favorite 0
comment 0
"A Richard Jackson book"--Half title p
Topics: Grandmothers, Family life, Deserts, Cancer, African Americans, Blacks, Families
253
253
2005
2005
by
Bettye Stroud
texts
eye 253
favorite 7
comment 0
Topics: Fugitive slaves -- Fiction, Quilts -- Fiction, Underground railroad -- Fiction, Slavery -- Fiction,...
1,235
1.2K
1982
1982
by
Williams, Vera B
texts
eye 1,235
favorite 18
comment 0
A child, her waitress mother, and her grandmother save dimes to buy a comfortable armchair after all their furniture is lost in a fire
Topics: Family life, Saving and investment, Chairs, Family
658
658
1973
1973
by
Walker, Alice, 1944-
texts
eye 658
favorite 2
comment 0
Roselily -- "Really, doesn't crime pay?" -- Her sweet Jerome -- The child who favored daughter -- Everyday use -- The revenge of Hannah Kemhuff -- The welcome table -- Strong horse tea -- Entertaining God -- The diary of an African nun -- The flowers -- We drink the wine in France -- To hell with dying
Topic: African American women
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